#reading

My shelf of books! I love them so! They take me where I want to go. Adventure, deeds of every age, Lie captured on the printed page; Through them I hear the swish of seas, The wind in lofty mountain trees; Their magic brings before my gaze Heroes of stirring, ancient days. Here in my chair, through day or night, They lend me wings for daring flight. I love my shelf of books, they are Pathways to sun...and moon... and star. ↗

— Katherine Edelman

#reading #age

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#ballplayer #bit #even #eyes #gave

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#books #re-reading #reading #age

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#reading #age

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun. ↗

— Kevin Smokler

#bibliophiles #books #fun #reader #reading

For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world. ↗

— David L. Ulin

#reading #age

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops. ↗

— Geoff Ryman

#aging #books #old-age #reading #writing

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed. ↗

— Alan Jacobs

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Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing oneself to the ideas contained in even the most controversial of books is a good thing. ↗

— Tiffini Johnson

#knowledge #reading #reading-books #age

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly. ↗

— Jen Knox

#jen-knox #musical-chairs #philosophy #psychology #reading